WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST In an analytical paragraph, explain how the author builds suspense in paragraphs 78-88 as the boys fight. Use evidence to support your response.

i believe it is "“i’ll beat thee, but i would infect my hands.”

explanation:

each morning i wrote my name

on the dusty cabinet, then crossed

the dining table in script, scrawled

in capitals on the backs of chairs,

practicing signatures like scales

while mother followed squirting

linseed from a burping can

it is c through the rain, the cheetah dashed.